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  • in reply to: Miracle in the CR #1224775
    Joseph
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    In the profile section there are some new biography questions you can optionally fill out (including first name and last name!)

    Btw I’m getting email notifications for new CR posts on threads I requested them, so that’s working.

    in reply to: Miracle in the CR #1224773
    Joseph
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    The easiest giveaway is the new email notification option below the comment box. But I saw a few other new features as well.

    in reply to: Miracle in the CR #1224769
    Joseph
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    The CR software was upgraded in the past few days. First upgrade, I think, in many years. Probably why the setting enabling moderation was reset.

    in reply to: Miracle in the CR #1224764
    Joseph
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    Can the mods comment whether the current unmoderated mode (or at least not pre-moderated) is intentional?

    in reply to: What to do when attacked by anti-semite? #1222703
    Joseph
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    Meir Kahane also thought being a big mouth and having a JDL would keep himself safe in galus. He famously said he felt safer in America than in Eretz Yisroel. We saw where that got him.

    And a good number of JDL leaders ended up in prison and got themselves on the State Department’s domestic terror list.

    in reply to: What to do when attacked by anti-semite? #1222696
    Joseph
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    If it’s physical call the police.

    If it’s verbal keep your head low, ignore and move on. Remember you’re in galus.

    in reply to: Fruit of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing #1221939
    Joseph
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    They are.

    The fruit of my labor.

    in reply to: Big Gedalya Gumber #1222675
    Joseph
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    Is that the spelling on his birth certificate?

    in reply to: I need some advice on trolling #1221937
    Joseph
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    I might (or might not) still have a recording of myself on the air with him. I may have discussed Bill Clinton’s tragic fiasco in Waco, Texas with the Branch Davidians.

    in reply to: I need some advice on trolling #1221935
    Joseph
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    National politics.

    I also spoke to Governor George Pataki of New York, Mayor Rudy Guiliani of New York and various candidates for office at different times on the radio.

    in reply to: I need some advice on trolling #1221933
    Joseph
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    I called in. And was put on the air.

    Rush has been America’s most listened to national talk radio host for the past 30 years. WABC was the flagship NYC radio station until a few years ago.

    I also met Mr. Limbaugh in the city in the mid-90s.

    in reply to: Miracle in the CR #1224723
    Joseph
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    This happened once before able 6 or 7 years ago. And someone took bad advantage of it then.

    in reply to: I need some advice on trolling #1221930
    Joseph
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    I think I was on the air twice with Country Yossi. In the mid-80s. I was also on the air with Rush Limbaugh and the entire WABC roster at some points in the 90s.

    in reply to: I need some advice on trolling #1221924
    Joseph
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    It’s free. I believe they’ve quoted you too. And it’s monthly (weekly was a typo.) Still remember their first issue. Was about the time I was on the air with him.

    in reply to: I need some advice on trolling #1221921
    Joseph
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    Yossi Toiv generally only reprints threads that have my wisdom imparted in it. Which is why I’m quoted nearly every week.

    in reply to: Limericks! #1221892
    Joseph
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    Welcome back, Shticky Guy,

    You’ve been away so long,

    But no one knows why.

    To us it doesn’t matter,

    So long as you drop by,

    To hear my atrocious limericks,

    That’s why.

    in reply to: George Washington was right about political parties #1220829
    Joseph
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    Washington was opposed to the formation of political parties. (And, to date, has been the only President not a member of any.)

    in reply to: To answer Anti-Zionism #1221056
    Joseph
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    AY: Rabbi A.I. Kook wore an IDF uniform before the IDF was around?

    in reply to: shaala for the rabim #1220471
    Joseph
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    Mine wouldn’t be different.

    in reply to: Exorbitant number of auto leasing companies #1220393
    Joseph
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    The only aderaba is to make those who wasted money on an auto lease assuge their feelings after throwing away money. There’s no financial advantage that can be enumerated for a lease versus purchasing an affordable vehicle.

    in reply to: Exorbitant number of auto leasing companies #1220389
    Joseph
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    Leasing is a waste of money.

    Buy don’t lease. If you can’t afford it, buy what you can afford.

    in reply to: School Choice #1220407
    Joseph
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    Lawmakers can reduce regulations and make very little strings attached.

    in reply to: What age to start smoking #1222828
    Joseph
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    119.

    in reply to: shaala for the rabim #1220464
    Joseph
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    OP: Why the obsession trying to insure your ex isn’t honored or invited to simchas? It’s time to leave your bitterness behind you. That means not being bothered if your ex is invited to a bar mitzvah or chasuna.

    That above point is true even if your characterizing of him, as you described above, is all accurate. Additionally, your bias may be preventing you from seeing the past objectively in assessing whether that characterizion is accurate.

    in reply to: School Choice #1220400
    Joseph
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    On that token of logic, how do you keep Jewish taxpayers off of taxpayer funded non-yeshivas?

    in reply to: School Choice #1220395
    Joseph
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    Yes in certain jurisdictions, depending how broadly they permit school choice. Some states (a small number) currently do fund Yeshiva tuition for the portion covering secular studies.

    in reply to: Bochurim who smoke #1220348
    Joseph
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    How would the girl find out he used to smoke years ago?

    in reply to: Dieting Tips #1220191
    Joseph
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    Wolf, have you kept the 95 pounds off since?

    in reply to: Who was Charlie Hall? #1219794
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    in reply to: Who was Charlie Hall? #1219793
    Joseph
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    He usually disappears from here for many months after the Democrats get annihilated, before resurfacing from his bunker again. Happened in 2010 and now again in 2016.

    After his party took a shellshacking in 2010 our esteemed Editor here created a special section for him:

    http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/forum/democratic-underground

    As you’ll notice on the bottom of the CR’s main page, it’s subtitle is “Where Charliehall can post all the liberal news he wants!”

    in reply to: Who was Charlie Hall? #1219792
    Joseph
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    Dr. Charlie Hall, Professor at Yeshiva University’s Einstein school of medicine. And and a statistician.

    in reply to: wine for purim #1222298
    Joseph
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    LB: You’re opposed to anyone drinking any alcohol until one reaches their mid-20s?

    in reply to: wine for purim #1222293
    Joseph
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    Wolf, aren’t you breaking the law by serving your 20 year old guests alcohol?

    in reply to: Purim collecting #1219879
    Joseph
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    Lilmod, well stated par excellence.

    in reply to: Purim collecting #1219877
    Joseph
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    Because I’ve donated them to a children’s charity.

    in reply to: Is Rabbi Yaakov Hillel a mekubal? #1220995
    Joseph
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    I don’t believe in wolves.

    in reply to: wine for purim #1222290
    Joseph
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    Wolf, if you have a 20 year olds guest on Shabbos, do you permit him to drink the wine for Kiddush?

    in reply to: Coming to shul without a jacket for davening Shachris #1219717
    Joseph
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    You can put the flap of the top of your shirt sleeve over your tefilin shel yad.

    in reply to: Purim weather #1222667
    Joseph
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    Is that in Detroit or in Lakewood?

    in reply to: What I learned from the Turx Controversy #1219524
    Joseph
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    I answered the same question when Avram asked it. Any President of any party.

    I also don’t think Futurepotus meant all forms and instances.

    in reply to: Inaccurate things we learned as kids #1222450
    Joseph
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    Perhaps women need to learn to accept the way things are spoken in the beis medrash.

    in reply to: To answer Anti-Zionism #1221043
    Joseph
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    Rav Shach was once asked why his child didn’t turn out to be a big talmid chochom. He answered that on Shabbos at the seuda he always has a sefer open and was learning, his mind deep in Torah. He said he had a chasidish neighbor he would always hear singing beutiful zemiros with his children at the Shabbos seuda. He said if he had done so as well his child too would have turned out to be someone great in Torah.

    in reply to: What I learned from the Turx Controversy #1219522
    Joseph
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    Who denounced all forms and instances of being in the spotlight?

    For the umpteenth time, the primarily issue here is being in a position that job description is to publicly challenge the President.

    in reply to: What I learned from the Turx Controversy #1219520
    Joseph
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    Avram, a Yid being a member of the WH press corps, assigned to question the POTUS, is what I find particularly problematic. I don’t see a problem for a Yid to work in the White House for the President.

    in reply to: Would you be offended? #1219569
    Joseph
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    I’d feel like I was in galus. So I’d daven for Moshiach so golus would end.

    in reply to: What I learned from the Turx Controversy #1219516
    Joseph
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    Bad comparison. Refusing to bow down to a getchke, even if that brings the spotlight, is the correct thing to do.

    The point here is that Yidden should go *out of their way* to avoid a situation which can even mistakenly and unfairly result in a negative reaction among high officials towards Yidden. And being a member of the press corps questioning the leader of the free world certainly has the potential to trigger that, even unwittingly.

    That a national leader would react unfairly should be taken into consideration beforehand.

    in reply to: May I Disagree With the Chofetz Chaim? #1219460
    Joseph
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    Wolf’s second post here mentions which CC he’s referring to:

    http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/mods-really

    in reply to: Shidduchim for those with a past #1220319
    Joseph
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    Bochor 2.0: Why, do you think, the other side has the right to know? Is the information relevant about your future marriage?

    in reply to: Purim collecting #1219862
    Joseph
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    TLIK: Who is talking about taking tzedakah for oneself. These bochorim are not collecting tzedakah for themselves. They are collecting tzedakah for *others* that need tzedakah.

    That is inarguably a humongous mitzvah. And something every child would do well being mechanech on.

    And the motive is primarily chinuch. I’ve seen many times kids and young adults collecting tzedakah for tzedakah worthy individuals and organizations *other* than their own yeshiva. When I was a child P’eylim came every year and gave out pushkas and booklets to all the children (aged 7 years old through beis medrash) in the yeshiva to collect tzedaka for them. And they raised large sums. And the money did not go to our Yeshiva, it went to Eretz HaKodesh. And it wasn’t on Purim time.

    in reply to: May I Disagree With the Chofetz Chaim? #1219441
    Joseph
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    You may not disagree with him on your own accord.

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